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Arabia
Anti-government protests in Yemen spread to south
2011-02-18
[Arab News] A demonstrator was killed and at least five others were maimed when police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse a demonstration in Al-Mansoura district in Yemen's coastal commercial capital Aden, local sources said.

Following the killing, angry demonstrators attacked the Al-Mansoura local council building. The demonstrators, who were among other protesters calling for the change of the goverment, stormed the building and set it ablaze along with four cars parked in the area.

The demonstrators earlier converged on the streets in response to calls by Internet evangelists. Aden could be the first southern Yemeni province that joined the demonstrations that call for President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
to quit following the resignation of the Egyptian president.

In the capital Sanaa, thousands of students gathered at Sanaa University campus and moved in the capital's streets. Many of the students were maimed in the intermittent confrontations with the pro-government loyalists who used batons and knives to assault the students.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
newsyemen.net, an independent website, said on Wednesday that Khaled Al-Tamim, the president of Sanaa University, was dismissed from office over the escalating protests in the university's campus.

Sanaa University, which is the biggest government-run university in Yemen, has become epicenter for most of the demonstrators that call for the president to step down.

Saleh also accused foreign hands of working hard to throw the region in chaos, anarchy and violence through rallies.

In his latest compromise, Saleh ordered all senior government employees to hold their meetings in the evening and devote more time to meet people.

At a meeting with Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, Parliament Speaker Yahya Al Ra' and Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, Saleh asked the cabinet and other authorities to hold their meetings during the second work shift and bigwigs should work hard at their offices to finish administrative papers and serve the people, Saba News Agency reported.
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